A woman running for city council in Marysville, Michigan made national news after announcing at a city council candidates forum that she intended to keep her town as white as possible if…
The 2018 midterm election brought a “blue wave” that , despite efforts in red states to limit voter turnout from to . While voter empowerment efforts, broadly speaking, in the 2018 elections,…
New York is now the first state in America to make it a crime to declaw cats. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed the bill into law on Monday, which could fine veterinarians…
In 2018, Brittany Noble — an award-winning news anchor at WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi — was fired after registering multiple complaints of racial discrimination against her employer. One of those complaints was…
In Oregon, Republican state senators are so adamantly opposed to global warming legislation that they’ve fled the state and are joining up with a far-right paramilitary group. One state senator even threatened…
Last year, The Atlantic said New York state had the “worst-in-the-country voting system.” But all that may be about to change if S. 1278 — automatic voter registration — passes the full…
During Grit Post‘s series on this April, the long and lasting road to making the city whole again and seeking justice came back into focus five years after the crisis began. One…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 6/12/19, 3:22 PM ET: At the request of the Rashid campaign, the phrase “home country of Pakistan” in this article has been changed to “birth country of Pakistan,” as Rashid…
Alabama, which just recently passed a strict law banning abortion even for victims of rape and incest, still doesn’t have a law banning rapists from getting custody of their victims’ children. According…
The State Ethics Commission of Georgia is now investigating Stacey Abrams, according to documents obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday. The Ethics Commission subpoenaed a wide swath of communications between the Abrams…